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Sunday, March 4th - Join us for our monthly membership meeting. All are welcome!

The meeting starts at 11:00 am, with introductions and general business. The Grand Hydro - Drew - will be presenting and sharing liquid samples of Irish-ish beers to celebrate St. Patrick's Day! Remember to bring your own tasting glass and your homebrew to share and for review by your peers.

And then lunch - Burgerfrau Jenna has a yummy spread planned for us - Shepard's Pie and a green salad (with a veggie option too!) YUM!

From the January '18 shop brew session, this recipe was created based on several ingredients I found available for cheap/free. The shop had accidentally ordered a bag of Munich light malt of a brand that they don't normally stock, so they marked it way down to get it out of inventory. I mentioned to several other members that I wanted to use that malt for the shop brew to see if they had recipe suggestions. John Aitcheson said he had saved yeast slurry from an earlier batch that had been cultured from a bottle of Westvleteren 8 and offered it for the shop brew. Given that yeast (free!) and that malt (cheap!) a strong dark Belgian style brew made the most sense. At this writing, the ferment is now tapering off. The wort by itself tasted fantastic.

Our annual Brew With a Falcon day is going to be a little different this year. In the past, BWaF has taken place on a set Saturday where 4 - 6 hosts across the Los Angeles area. We're thinking it would be a lot more fun to have BWaF on as many days as possible in March - just like there is a slew of basketball games in the month of March! Our hopes are to have at least 1 brew day on each weekend of the month. Makes it a little easier for everyone to make it to BWaF this year - weekends get booked up quickly with life stuff!

Help our friends at the TOaked Homebrew club by entering and judging Romancing the Beer. The contest will be on Feb 10 at fellow Falcon Tim Kazules Five Threads Brewery in Westlake Village. You can find all the details at www.romancingthebeer.com.

Sunday, February 4th, 2018 - Join us for our monthly membership meeting. All are welcome!

The meeting starts at 11:00 am, with introductions and general business. The Grand Hydro - Drew - will present the style of the month which is TBD but will be something "Celebratory" in spirit of Super Bowl LLI and provide liquid examples. Remember to bring your own tasting glass and your homebrew to share and for review by your peers.

Attention Falcons, as part of the club's efforts to do more charitable activities and bring beer-joy to the world, we are honored to have been invited to host a homebrewed beer bar to support the 2017 Volunteer Appreciation Party of the local non-profit Food Forward on Saturday, January 20, 2018. To participate, you have to commit to bringing a 5 gallon keg (or a bunch of bottles) of beer, cider, soda, cold brew coffee, or kombucha, and be there by 4:00 PM to help set up.

Sunday, January 7th - Join us for our monthly membership meeting. All are welcome!

The meeting starts at 11:00 am, with introductions and general business. The Grand Hydro - Drew - being his usual dashing & mysterious self, will be presenting and sharing liquid samples of a style warming and strong for this chilly time of year! Remember to bring your own tasting glass and your homebrew to share and for review by your peers.

It's that time of year again when we fondly remember our compadre Doug King. Doug was a brewer's brewer - always there to lend a hand to the club or another brewer. He was also fond of experimentation and was well known for his crazy experiments (loafs of rye bread, potatoes, tortillas - all in the mash) and his love of lagers. He won the 1996 California State Fair for his Dougweiser.

I just wanted to send a note out to thank you again for ALL the wonderful gifts you brought to the meeting today for our 8th Annual Toy Drive. I am overwhelmed each time by your generosity in bringing so much for the kids. Such a great selection of gifts for youth of all ages. I am humbled and so proud of our club. What wonderful hearts you all have. The Fire Department sends a big thank you to everyone. If you want to give more, you can drop off more gifts at any Fire Department. Have a very wonderful holiday and all the best in the New Year.

Southern California Homebrewers Festival & Maltose Falcon Club camping is back at Vail Lake Resort in Temecula & will be held the weekend of May 5th. Come join your fellow Falcons & more than 35 other homebrew clubs! See complete list of events on the CHA site (more info coming soon!)

Falcons, sign up now to join the Falcons Veep Big Ed Kochanowski as he leads the crew in brewing a New England IPA on Sunday, December 17. Is it a milkshake? An orange smoothy? Who knows!! This beer is cloudy, creamy and has massive tropical fruity aromas and low bitterness. Learn more about the craze. This is the first time the club has ever brewed this style, so don't miss this historic opportunity!

I honestly don’t mind doing President duty for the Falcons. It’s a relatively low-stress job, mostly just prodding people into doing what they said they would, trying to keep the club on the right path. Soreheads are thankfully rare when there is good beer to be shared. The benefits are decent too, the club buys beer for the board and we get to hang out and shoot the shiz on an extra day every month.

Sunday, December 3rd - Join us for our monthly membership meeting. All are welcome!
The meeting starts at 11:00 am, with introductions and general business. The Grand Hydro - Drew - will present the style of the month "Big, Strong, and Holiday" and provide liquid examples. Remember to bring your own tasting glass and your homebrew to share and for review by your peers.
Then we'll move on to our lunch - POTLUCK! If you would like to bring a dish to pass, please comment below so Burgerfrau Jenna can organize the line up.

Hey Falcons - need your help to guide the club in the coming year! Tell us what we're doing right, wrong, needs to be doing, needs to stop doing. At least one lucky winner will be drawn to receive a free single bale hop core sample courtesy of me courtesy of YCH Hops. So take a few minutes and give us your input, we'd like to know. (Drawing only open to members of the club)

THE COUNTDOWN IS ON! Have you picked up a few assorted gifts for the toy drive? Let's be thankful for what we have but also help out those less fortunate than us.

This will be our 8th Annual Toy Drive. Last year we got a great amount of toys. Let's top it this year. Please bring a new unwrapped toy to benefit underprivileged children. After the meeting, we will take these to the Los Angeles Fire Department for distribution to the kids during the holidays. We will be collecting the toys at the meeting, but please feel free to bring them sooner and drop them off at the shop.

Falcons, sign up now to join Steve and Irene as they lead the crew in brewing Kamanawanaleia Porter, a robust porter (coconut optional) Sunday, November 12. They'll be using the same recipe as they did to make their wedding beer.

Join Grand Hydrometer Drew Beechum for the next monthly Club Shop Brew Session as he leads the crew in brewing a _____ Golden Strong, on Sunday, October 29. Drew loves _____ Golden Strong. So much so that he wants to show you how to brew a ____ Golden Strong. The key element is that you add a different kind of yeast, or dry hops, or fruit, or _____ in order to make your ______ Golden Strong. Drew' will make his batch to be a Belgian Golden Strong with Szechuan peppercorns and ginger.

The new BJCP students will be judging a prelim. for the PBC Wednesday, Sept 27 at the shop at 7PM and we can use help. Both experienced judges and stewards would be appreciated. Help train the new class of students and help our friends at Pacific Gravity at the same time. If you can either judge or steward this Wednesday, email me at vicepresident@maltosefalcons.com.

The first of 4 Beer Judging Classes will be held at the Home Wine and Beer Shop on Sept. 20 at 7PM. The other classes willf be on Oct. 4, Oct. 18, and Nov. 1. We'll have 4 different guest instructors who are some of the most knowledgable beer experts in Southern Calfiornia teaching. We will also be covering most of the world beer styles, how to evaluate beer, off flavors and faults, and brewing techniques.

Want to make your own beer at home? Get started on the right foot. Check out the Falcon's sponsoring shop, The Home Beer, Wine, Cheesemaking Shop. John Daume, proprietor, has been serving the home brewing and winemaking needs of Angelenos since 1972, over 30 years! (Falcon Members receive a 10% discount on supplies)